Clerk: All new forms processed on time

1:40 AM,
Nov. 7, 2012

Written by

Ruth Ingram
and Jeff Amy

Hinds County Circuit Clerk Barbara Dunn and staff members say NAACP allegations that their office didn't process thousands of voter registration forms in time for Tuesday's election are untrue.

"It's disheartening," said Deputy Circuit Clerk LaGecha McKinley. "We know how hard we have worked. Presidential elections are important to everybody."

Derrick Johnson, state president of the Mississippi NAACP, on Monday said the organization registered close to 10,000 voters in Hinds County in its statewide voter registration drive. He said some or all of the forms were never put into ...